Contents

• WIP Description
• Restrictions on Use
• Disclaimer
• Trademark Acknowledgments
• WIP Contact
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Part I: General Concepts
  • 1 How to Use This Manual
    • Notation:
    • There's always help:
    • READLINE:
    • PGPLOT:
    • World Wide Web:
  • 2 The User Interface
  • 3 General Graphics Concepts
    • 3.1 Graphical Devices
    • 3.2 Help, Echo, and Show
    • 3.3 Coordinate Systems
    • 3.4 Attributes
    • 3.5 Boxes
    • 3.6 Text
    • 3.7 Data Files
      • Dynamic Data Files
    • 3.8 Cursor Interaction
  • 4 Basic Plotting
    • 4.1 Simple Plots
    • 4.2 Single Variable Plots
  • 5 Images
    • 5.1 Image Files
      • The Miriad Image Format
      • The FITS Image Format
      • The Basic Image Format
    • 5.2 Image Characteristics
      • The Coordinate Transfer Function
        • Rotated Transfer Functions
      • Selecting subsections of the Image
      • Setting Contour Levels
      • The Header Command
      • Wedge Displays
      • The Image Transfer Function
      • The Image Palette
    • 5.3 Window Adjustments for Images
      • The Window Adjustment Commands
      • Panel Movements
      • Overlaid Images
    • 5.4 Image Plots
      • Contour Plots
      • Gray-Scale Plots
      • Cross Section Plots
      • Drawing A Beam
• Part II: Advanced Concepts
  • 6 Data Fitting
    • 6.1 Fitting
      • Least Squares Method
      • Method of Least Absolute Deviations
      • Simple Polynomial Fitting
      • Legendre Polynomial Fitting
      • Gaussian Fitting
    • 6.2 Limiting and Displaying Fits
      • Limiting A Fit
      • Displaying A Fit
  • 7 Macros
    • 7.1 General Concepts
    • 7.2 Creating Macros
    • 7.3 Macro Arguments
    • 7.4 Editing Macros
      • List
      • Insert
      • Delete
    • 7.5 Executing Macros
    • 7.6 Saving and Recalling Macros
  • 8 User Variables
    • 8.1 General Concepts
    • 8.2 Pre-Defined Variables
    • 8.3 Accessing the User Variables
      • The SET Command
        • Numeric User Variables
        • String User Variables
    • 8.4 Creating and Removing User Variables
  • 9 Control Flow
    • 9.1 IF
      • An Example of How to Use the IF Command
      • Other Uses of the IF Command
      • The IF Command with Complicated Expressions
    • 9.2 LOOP
• Part III: Appendices
  • A The .wipinit File
  • B Command Line Interface
  • C Glossary
  • D Table of Current Command Names
  • E Sample Plots
    • E.1 Basic graphics commands
    • E.2 Reading data from an external file
      • Contents of the external file data.dat
    • E.3 Fonts and different ways to present text
    • E.4 Roman to Greek character mapping
    • E.5 Macros and subdivision of a view surface
    • E.6 Generating data internally with macros
    • E.7 Symbols used to plot points
    • E.8 Hershey Symbols
    • E.9 Fitting
    • E.10 A simple image
      • Contents of the image header file
    • E.11 Multiple image layout and more macros
    • E.12 Overlay of multiple images
    • E.13 A simple color image
    • E.14 Color Palettes
  • F Frequently Asked Questions
    • Lack of Printer Output
    • erase Command Troubles
    • Offset Positions
    • Writing Numbers as Text
    • Box Label is Incorrect
    • FITS Images
    • Fortran Callable
    • Panel Movements with Images
    • User Interaction with Prompts
    • Overlapping Y-Axis Labels
    • Logarithmic Error Bars
    • Aspect Ratio Without Images
    • Strange Hardcopy Output
    • Changing the Number of Digits Displayed
    • Leaving Loops Early
• Index
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